Anand Giridharadas

Can I give you a job here, right?

And he gets somehow this opportunity to interview at Bear Stearns on Wall Street, gets this job at Bear Stearns.

At some point, Bear Stearns finds out that he's lied about his education, being a college graduate.

And he, in this, again, we're talking about his kind of grasp of human acupressure points.

He sort of perfectly frames it to this boss who...

himself had a kind of attitude of being an outsider.

And I'm, you know, I proved my way here.

And I don't, you know, had a sense of like School of Hard Knocks.

He convinces them that, you know, I lied because I knew I'd never get a chance if I told the truth of my biography.

And this sort of, you know, resonates with this School of Hard Knocks boss.

Yeah.

And you're starting to see this understanding, which I think of him as like, having once been a foreign correspondent myself in India, I think of Epstein as like operating in New York like a foreign correspondent from Coney Island, right?

And I think this is really, really important because he's socially mapping, anthropologically mapping

what is happening here in New York, but is not named out loud, right?

Like the way that charity galas function in New York.

I mean, if you're rich and, you know, eighth generation rich in New York, you don't think about what they are.

You just go to them.

But if you're an outsider, you understand that gala is a very specific thing.

It, on the surface, is seeming to give back money to people who don't have it or take care of needy people.

But what it's actually doing is cementing power relationships and allowing people to display their kind of share price in a social market.